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They are trending back upwards again, precisely because much of the fear spawned by that epidemic has died down, and the current generation and the culture which shaped it is more tolerant and encouraging of promiscuous behavior as such

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Originally Posted by Bucky

You have no empirical evidence backing up your false assertion. You are simply conjecturing based on a whim...

Untreated gonorrhea can cause serious and permanent health problems in both women and men.

In women, untreated gonorrhea can cause pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). Some of the complications of PID are
Formation of scar tissue that blocks fallopian tubesExternal Web Site Icon;
Ectopic pregnancy (pregnancy outside the wombExternal Web Site Icon);
InfertilityExternal Web Site Icon (inability to get pregnant);
Long-term pelvic/abdominal pain.

In men, gonorrhea can cause a painful condition in the tubes attached to the testicles. In rare cases, this may cause a man to be sterile, or prevent him from being able to father a child.
Rarely, untreated gonorrhea can also spread to your blood or joints. This condition can be life-threatening.

Untreated gonorrhea may also increase your chances of getting or giving HIV – the virus that causes AIDS.

If you are a woman, untreated chlamydia can spread to your uterus and fallopian tubes (tubes that carry fertilized eggs from the ovaries to the uterus), causing pelvic inflammatory disease (PID). PID often has no symptoms, however some women may have abdominal and pelvic pain. Even if it doesn’t cause symptoms initially, PID can cause permanent damage to your reproductive system and lead to long-term pelvic pain, inability to get pregnant, and potentially deadly ectopic pregnancy (pregnancy outside the uterus).

Men rarely have health problems linked to chlamydia. Infection sometimes spreads to the tube that carries sperm from the testicles, causing pain and fever. Rarely, chlamydia can prevent a man from being able to have children.

Untreated chlamydia may also increase your chances of getting or giving HIV – the virus that causes AIDS.

Herpes can also not only kill newborns, but suppress the immune system in a manner similar to HIV, if left untreated.

What are you telling me for? Tell that to the 110 million people living in this country with STDs, or the 20 million people who are newly infected each year.

Oh, wait. I forgot. You're too busy encouraging them to go out and "get laid" to bother.

The Sky is Falling!!!! Someone else got laid!

That isn't a fact. That is your ill-informed opinion.

Chicken Little would be so proud.

We're trillions of dollars in debt, we're a laughing stock internationally, our economy sucks with no real hope of recovery in sight, our population is one hiccup in immigration away from being in full on decline, and we're fast approaching the point in our society where welfare recipients outnumber people who actually work for a living.

Yeaaa... We're doing juuuust fine.

Originally Posted by Top Cat

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If the shoe fits...

Originally Posted by sangha

Most cases are treated. Before the sexual revolution, a higher rate of STD's went untreated

There were fewer STDs in general than there are today.

We basically waste billions of dollars each year treating epidemics which wouldn't exist at all if people simply had the common sense to keep their assorted genitalia in their pants.

What are you telling me for? Tell that to the 110 million people living in this country with STDs, or the 20 million people who are newly infected each year.

Oh, wait. I forgot. You're too busy encouraging them to go out and "get laid" to bother.

I also said wrap the rascal. How conveniently you left that off. Perhaps yours is too small to fit into a wrapper?

We're trillions of dollars in debt, we're a laughing stock internationally, our economy sucks with no real hope of recovery in sight, our population is one hiccup in immigration away from being in full on decline, and we're fast approaching the point in our society where welfare recipients outnumber people who actually work for a living.

Of course, it's those damned liberals that are ruining the world.

Yeaaa... We're doing juuuust fine.

Actually I am doing quite well. Thanks for asking. I haven't been to church in 40 years. All good here.

There were fewer STDs in general than there are today.

Honestly, life hasn't changed. That's nonsense. Ask Socrates.

We basically waste billions of dollars each year treating epidemics which wouldn't exist if people simply had the common sense to keep their assorted genitalia in their pants.

If only they would pray more.

Originally Posted by Bucky

You have no empirical evidence backing up your false assertion. You are simply conjecturing based on a whim...

Well'p, I hate to break it to you, but the fundamentally shallow and immature kinds of people most likely to accept your version of sexuality, are also the least likely to be sexually responsible.

Go figure, right?

They're certainly not helping matters.

Because it's all about you, right?

The numbers tell a different story.

If only.

Let's all pray the sex out of ourselves. I mean if you cannot suppress millions of years of evolution, ingrained genetic wiring and species self-preservation by repeating some words then whats the use of living.